thespindrifter:Wow, what a week! I spent a lot of time bouncing between 9th place and 11th, then dropped to 13th; heck, I'm just happy to have placed anywhere near the top at all :) Who knows where I'll be when this officially closes?

As usual, the pic I thought would do well tanked, and the one I thought would garner the least amount of votes got the best, which just goes to show that I have no idea what people actually like, and my tastes are very different from 'neurotypical' norms.

For gambitsgirl: oh how I wish you could have been #1 with something else. I can't imagine.

Hey ravnostic! I hope I didn't offend you with the pic, just thought it was kinda funny and wanted to share.

Elsinore:Looks like two ladies, one of whom is sporting a camera around her neck. It would be hard to be truly "off topic" in this forum. The community forums are typically chatty, sometimes on, sometimes off topic. In this case, the Fark Farktography forum is ostensibly primarily concerned with photos, photography, and Farktography. Since libranoelrose posted a photo, particularly one including a camera and featuring some wimmens that at least some proportion of Farkers would find attractive......well, you get the picture, eh? ;)

I'll post something about this on the Farktohraphy site later to reach as many people as possible, but since i now know about this forum.... There's a Photoshop themed contest coming up where submitters are suppose to start with a photo they took and manipulate it digitally somehow. So it's essentially a no-holds barred version of the "Software Hootenanny" contest we've done twice now. So n case any of you would like to make over-the-top HDR treatments, post-processed multiple exposures, hyper-saturated photos, etc... that would be outside the rules of normal Farktography contests, then you might want to participate in contest #6694522..(POPS) I don't know if that link works for non-TF members though. If not check the "contests" page and scroll to the ones that go live on Mon 11/7 or just look for the one titled "Photoshop one of your own photographs". :)

The first thing that came to mind was a b-side for "That's No Moon..."If that wasn't the intent, then it was probably just something libranoelrose wanted to share. Personally, I like it. It shows two young ladies having a laugh, fooling around on the beach. I wouldn't want to frame it and hang it on my wall ( or show my grandmother ), but its definitely not anything near pornographic or offensive to my eyes.

BecauseISaidSo, the charts don't seem to be updated in the Bibliostats page. Votes are, but not the charts. Just an FYI--not critical or anything (because obviously, I must be the only one looking at them).

ravnostic:BecauseISaidSo, the charts don't seem to be updated in the Bibliostats page. Votes are, but not the charts. Just an FYI--not critical or anything (because obviously, I must be the only one looking at them).

rav, the charts are being updated, but due to the default caching protocol, if you check the charts frequently you'll get a cached version instead of the latest generated image. It's on my todo list to tweak the caching parms so that this is automatic, but in the meantime, you can always get the latest charts by doing an F5 to refresh the screen after selecting the charts tab.

Where do I go to request themes be posted for January 2012?There doesn't seem to be a good place in Farktography.net, and I'm not feeling all Christmasy, so I'd like something or other to be shooting for.

Yugoboy:Where do I go to request themes be posted for January 2012?There doesn't seem to be a good place in Farktography.net, and I'm not feeling all Christmasy, so I'd like something or other to be shooting for.

I should be able to get some stuff up this weekend. But anything in the farktography.net Hopper thread will be scheduled at some point or antoher, so they're fair game to shoot for.

I don't remember exactly where we were--but I know it was on the Big Island, in Puna. You can see that we're near the ocean. I think it was around where Pahoa Kalapana Road meets Chain of Craters. If you really want to know, I can phone a friend. Straight out of the camera--and now I remember why I didn't post them. The best ones had too many signs of civilization for this week's topic. The lava flow wasn't very deep, as you can see by the concrete left behind, but it took out most of a housing development. People are coming back...I guess it's not likely that lava will strike twice.

Hey predle, I AM a rank amateur, and after participating in Farktography for some time, now once in a while I pull out a winner. Keep at it! Farktography itself is one of the best remediations out there.

So not true, predle--I especially liked that leafless barren tree of yours from this week :)

Congrats to Ranger Joe on the "Best" category win and to Linguine on the "Funniest" category win in this week's "Straight Out of Camera" theme!

Some upcoming themes:

1/25 "Stoned"--Photos where rocky things are prominent. Anything from sand to mountains.2/1 "Go Out and Get Some Strange"--Intimate street photography of strangers (each entry must be of a different subject). Location doesn't necessarily have to be out on a street/sidewalk, could be other public places/accommodation as well.2/8 "Apples vs Oranges 2: The Rematch"--Show us the battles between them.